10:30 am in carbon sequestration, design, green building, materials, wood by TreeHugger
Stair at Art Gallery of Ontario by Frank Gehry; Image credit Wood Works Ontario
Tim Wall at
Discovery News adds another "R" to our growing list (we are up to
ten):
Reconsider our choices of building materials. He points us to a new study published in
Carbon Management that looks at the full life-cycle ana...
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10:38 am in alternative energy, alternative fuel, wood by TreeHugger
The Stûv that Dreams Are Made of
We love wood at TreeHugger; our posts on
wood and pellet stoves continue to be among the most popular we have ever published. Environmental writer Mark Gunther loves it too, calling it
A renewable energy technology that gets no respect.. He calls it " a "green" technology that appeals to poor and working class people. And, because gathering and distribu...
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5:15 am in architects, architecture, buildings, crafts, decorating, Design & Architecture, designers, energy efficiency, green building, interiors, less is more, materials, prefab, prototypes, recycled, recycled building materials, small spaces, spain, urban life, wood by TreeHugger
Image Credit: 5º Pino
Here is the last part of from this beautiful collection of wood design from Spain, put together by
Confemadera. Check out the privious posts about
a fun wooden bicycle and the stunning heritage ceilings from the South, and
last week's Fab Lab House and micro-islands along the Spanish coast. This week it's about wooden graffiti, 3D wood typographies and energy-efficient modular prefab h...
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You want fancy graphs? We've got fancy graphs. Carbon emission reduction by displacing non-wood products, credit Corrim.
Climate Progress asks Which Emits the Most CO2 in Home Construction: Steel, Concrete or Timber? and concludes that building a house with wood has CO2 footprint that is 4.44 times as high as a steel framed house. But I think there are problems with this....Read the full story on TreeHugger
